Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body's Natural Aby Alejandro Junger, M.D.

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In Clean, a New York City cardiologist and a leader in the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Alejandro Junger offers a major medical breakthrough. Dr. Junger argues that the majority of common ailments are the direct result of toxic buildup in our systems accumulated through the course of our daily lives. As the toxicity of modern life increases and disrupts our systems on a daily basis, bombarding us through our standard American diet and chemical-filled environments, our ability to handle the load hasn't accelerated at the same rapid pace. The toxins are everywhere, but Clean offers a solution.

Clean is an M.D.'s program that provides all the tools necessary to support and reactivate our detoxification system to its fullest capabilities, and can be easily incorporated into a busy schedule. The effect is transformative: nagging health problems will suddenly disappear, extra weight will drop away, and for the first time in our lives we will experience what it truly means to feel healthy.

Excerpt

Chapter One

Why Clean?

You are sitting on a familiar box, begging for pennies to survives, unaware that inside the box is a treasure that will not only fund this survival, but will also give you wealth beyond your wildest dreams.

You are not alone. Millions of Americans, like millions of others worldwide, are doing the same thing. Maybe you’re begging for help to solve a small but troubling health problem, like extra weight, ongoing fatigue, allergies, depression, or a digestive disorder. Maybe you need help to avoid developing a bigger problem, like on of the so-called diseases of civilization – cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and autoimmune disorders. Or maybe you want very much to look and feel younger and more radiant, and to slow down the onset of aging.

The pennies you are asking for are the prescription medications and surgeries that you have been taught are essential to remedy your problems. So you leave your hand out and collect what you can, waiting for the help promised to you by doctors, drug companies, and advertising.

But the truth is different. The power to heal lies somewhere much closer. You already have it, and you don’t need prescriptions, treatments, or expensive experts to get it. In fact, you’re sitting right on top of it.

That familiar box that’s supporting you, almost unnoticed, is your own body, run but its incredible natural intelligence. The wealth beyond belief is the vibrant well-being and longevity that are your birthright.

And the treasure inside that will deliver this state of vitality, beauty and vigor? It’s something you probably haven’t been taught to value. It’s a system that is designed by nature to keep you healthy, youthful, and happy, if you only help it carry out its functions. It is the missing part of the health puzzle – an untapped source of healing, regeneration, restoration, and even rejuvenations. It is the on-board system that makes you and keeps you Clean, your system of detoxification.

This system, which comprises many organs and physiological processes working together throughout the body, is a wellspring of health. But its value has been forgotten. Modern medicine’s fascination with molecules and micro-technology has targeted attention obsessively on smaller and smaller aspects of our biology while losing interest in looking at the big-picture systems in the body hat keep us surviving and thriving. This is a mistake. Many of the health problems that trouble so many modern humans and cost society so much money can be alleviated when – instead of getting more detail-oriented in your approach, recruiting more super specialists inventing more technology, and adding in more medication – you take a broader perspective and do something simpler: turn your attention to the treasure that is already there, the detoxification system, and reactivate its potential.

A focused period of detoxifying is a reset for the whole physical and mental body. It delivers an all-access pass to boundless reserves of energy you didn’t know you had. You find that every part of your body works better, imbalances are rectified, and irritating symptoms get a chance to melt away on their own – all by your simply “switching on” a system that you were born with and that has been patiently waiting to serve you.

Imagine your right arm has been taped to the side of your body since birth. You grow up using only your left arm, thinking this is normal, because everyone else was exactly the same. As an adult, you take on carpentry, and your business starts doubling each year. Just when you are about to collapse from the intense work load, a stranger rings your doorbell. He untapes your right arm, and to your surprise, without ever having dreamed of it as a possibility, you accelerate from a state of overload, unable to fill your orders, to operating up to your unbounded true potential and doing more than ever before.

The stranger arriving at the door is the Clean program contained in this book. Untaping that arm is the act of uncovering and accelerating the detoxification system’s full potential. The flourishing productivity that results is your body’s natural ability to maintain steady energy, avoid colds and the flu, heal allergies, age gracefully, and avoid disease.

Who is a candidate for using this program? Everyone who lives a modern life, eats a modern diet, and inhabits the modern world.